jnlr radio Listenership Announced

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has announced the latest JNLR Listenership results. Nationally most stations have seen slight increases or decreases or no change at all. In Dublin RTÉ Radio 1 remains at the top with a 30% share (down 1), Dublin's FM104 is next with 21% (no change). Together Communicorp stations have a 50% share of the total audience across Today FM, NewsTalk, Spin and 98fm, making them the most popular broadcaster in the capital.

In Cork the significant winner is Cork 96FM with a 48% share of the audience, RTÉ Radio 1 increased its share in Cork by 2%, while 4fm has its highest listenership in Cork at 7%. In the South East Local Radio remains popular with an audience share of 62%, Beat FM and RTÉ Radio 1 are joint second with a 22% share. Local radio also claims the top spots in the rest of the country. RTÉ Radio 1 fights against popular music stations in the regions for second place. Spin South West and i102 have a 20% share, with only the North East and Midlands seeing smaller audience for i105 with just a10% audience share.

4FM the multicity radio station has 3% share in its catchment area with other local radio taking 53% of the share in city areas.

Table extracts below for each region, taken from the JNLR research as carried out by JNLR/ISPOS MRBI for the BAI.